Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Windsor Plains Community Hall
Three Mile Plains, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- meeting hall
- Year built
- c.1845
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Cultural association
- African Nova Scotian
- Notice of registration date
- 22 September 2008
- Civic address
- 4839 Highway 1
- Community
- Three Mile Plains
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.96481, -64.07772
- File number
- Prov_file_271
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its cultural history value and because of its character defining elements including: the remaining elements of the simple styled building including the corner boards; the pitched gabled roof; the single storey mass; the wooden shingled exterior siding; and the original placement of the building being adjacent to the main road.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Windsor Plains Community Hall are:
-the remaining elements of the simple styled building including the corner boards;
-the pitched gable roof;
-the single storey mass;
-the wooden shingled exterior siding; and
-the original placement of the building on lot.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.